Appendix 3. Boolean algebra, by Louis H. Kauffman

Articles in the same Issue

1. Titelei
2. Preface
3. Acknowledgements
4. Prologue
5. Was Boole a formalist?
6. Towards a semiotics of Boolean algebra: Charles S. Peirce (1839-1914)
7. A psychological interpretation of Boole’s symbolical algebra: Mary Everest Boole (1832–1916) and Ethel Sturges Dummer (1866–1954)
8. The algebra of ‘good’ and ‘evil’
9. The logic of mysticism and the illogic of ‘race-hatred’ and other stereotypes
10. The reform of mathematics and the reform of religion
11. A decline in anthropology’s natural science model: Robert Redfield (1897-1958)
12. Anthropology as an algebra of cultural differences and homologies: Lévi-Strauss’s structuralism
13. Will Boole’s symbolical algebra become an auxiliary international language?
14. The complementarity of cultures and civilizations
15. Gestalt psychology and configurations of cultures
16. Dual oppositions: Logical, linguistic, and social and their unification
17. Mary Boole and William James on the causes of nervous breakdowns
18. Religion, science, and civic reform
19. The contributions of two amateurs to the Chicago Schools of Anthropology, Sociology, and Social Work
20. What George and Mary Boole learned from a learned Jewish guru
21. Why Dr. J. C. Bose did not reply to Mary Boole’s open letter of 1901
22. Formalism, structuralism, and semiotic anthropology
23. An encounter on the Sepik River
24. Epilogue: Towards a semiotic anthropology of civilizations
25. Appendix 1. Letter from Louis H. Kauffman
26. Appendix 2: Commentary, by Louis H. Kauffman
27. Appendix 3. Boolean algebra, by Louis H. Kauffman
28. Appendix 4. A mathematician’s glossary of terms for non-mathematicians
29. Appendix 5. Letter from Claude Lévi-Strauss
30. Notes
31. References